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Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is President and CEO of the think tank New America, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.

Unfortunately the US and its President more and more resembles those speakers in London's Hyde Park, who stand on the podium, producing beautiful speeches, long term goals but apart from some lonely people or the pigeons nobody truly listens.
The world is not for the US to rescue or solve, moreover wherever they entered they left very confusing, unsettled situations behind that will hunt them for a long time.
The President and the US most probably will find themselves in a reactive state, firefighting, trying to answer, defuse multiple exploding scenarios around Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, North Korea.
What not only the US but other countries also have to understand today we evolved into such an interconnected and interdependent human network, where even the "smallest" conflict necessitates a truly global, and truly mutual cooperation, where all the participants enter, and participate as equals.
The age of superstars, "most valuable players" is over, we have to get used to simple, but effective teamwork.